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[IMAGE (PHOTOGRAPH, GRAPHIC) Photo of female student and young girl dressed up; Cutout of male soccer player; Cutout of man�s head; Photo of Dia de los Muertos decorations; Graphic of proposed location of multi-cultural center] COURTESY GRAPHIC The proposed location for the new multi-cultural center will be located between Sallee and Mowbray halls on Murray Street. MARTYN DAVIS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Maria Kuthy, education of interdisciplinary studies professor, and her EIS 417G students helped celebrate Dia de los Muertos by hosting an open house at Casa Latina. KATIE O�ROURKE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Students helped children enjoy a safe trick-or-treating Monday night in the residence halls. Serving Western Illinois University Since 1905 Volume 107, Issue 31 www.westerncourier.com WESTERN COURIER Wednesday, November 1, 2006 New multicultural complex to hit campus By Joe Lanane editor in chief School administrators recently announced that a ground-breaking new facility is expected to hit Western Illinois University, and several cultural centers throughout campus are reaping the benefits. The Multicultural Center, as it is currently being called, will house the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, Casa Latina and the Women's Center all under the same roof. After much anticipation, the Multicultural Center is tentatively scheduled to open in two years. ""We're really excited about it,"" said Janine Cavicchia, director of the Women's Center. ""We've been involved the last couple years with the planning committees and meeting with the architects to make this the biggest location we've had so far on campus."" The building is one of the first of its kind in the Midwest to accommodate multiple cultural organizations, which is what makes the building so distinctive compared to other facilities on campus. ""We're talking about doing something very unique,"" said Earl Bracey, associate vice president for Student Services. He said the idea is a combination of several cultural buildings already in place at local universities. The approximately $5.5 million project would be located where the Casa Latina building currently stands, creating a centralized location for all three groups. The money is being generated by Facility Enhancement Fee developed from student funds. The fee was created more than one year ago to facilitate such projects as new sprinkler systems, athletic stadium enhancements and the Multicultural Center. Bracey said Casa Latina would close its doors at the end of the spring semester. As a result, Casa Latina would be located in a temporary site during the year of construction. Once completed, it would return to the newly-constructed center. Also at that point, the Gwendolyn Brooks center would vacate the University Auxiliary Building while the Women's Center would make the move next door from the third floor of Seal Hall. Name controversy ensues By Joe Lanane editor in chief Discussion has already arisen regarding the probable name of the the new complex. Associate Vice President for Student Services Earl Bracey said the building would simply be titled the Multicultural Center to appeal to all organizations the structure represents. ""Every student on this campus is paying for this building and it's very important they all feel welcomed there,"" he said. A recent petition from the Black Student Association is pushing to include the name Gwendolyn Brooks as the staple of the Multicultural Center. But while at Monday's BSA meeting, Bracey told members the currently proposed name is the most unbiased approach to ensuring no single organization is favored over another. ""You guys have the right to go down that road and sign a petition, and if that's what you think you Should do then do it,"" Bracey said see Controversy page 7 Students party with the dead By K.C. Vetter assistant news editor Halloween has become a major holiday in the American culture where kids eat their weight in free candy and college students have as another excuse to party. Other cultures, however, follow different traditions. Casa Latina hosted an open house Tuesday night to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or ""Day of the Dead,"" as a class project. The students of EIS 417G � foundations of language and minority education � put together an exhibit to help celebrate ""Day of the Dead."" An altar was set up paying tribute to Pablo Nerada, a Nobel Prize winner known for his poetry. ""(The students) decided they wanted to pay tribute to Neruda,"" said Maria Kuthy, EIS professor. ""They put it all together."" ""Day of the Dead"" is the Mexican equivalent of Halloween, beginning midnight the night of Oct. 31 and celebrated through Nov. 2. Both celebrations have ancient pagan roots that were adopted by the Christian culture. However, the ""Day of the Dead"" is a time when Mexican families remember their dead and celebrate the continuity of life. ""These displays represent those who died,"" said Claudia Babalay, senior bilingual education major. ""If they liked margaritas, we'll put margaritas."" The Mexican celebration, which can be traced to many Mesoamerican native traditions, originally fell at the end of July and the beginning of August. But the post-conquest era was moved by Spanish priests so it coincided with the Christian holiday of All Hallows Eve, an effort to transform the observance from a profane to a Christian celebration. The modern festivity is characterized by the traditional Mexican blend of ancient and adopted Christian features. A couple of students made presentations of different ""Day of the Dead"" celebrations from around the world, from Mexico to Africa to Asia. ""It was a very good experience,"" Dechet Miller, bilingual education and Spanish major and member of the EIS 417G class, said. ""It was one of the best (experiences) I've had in college."" ""They've been organizing (this event) every Sunday for the past month,"" Kuthy said. ""This was the fifth time we've done this,"" Kuthy added. ""I am very proud of them for all their hard work."" Different cultures practice different traditions but generally .the holiday's festivities consist of families welcoming their dead relatives back into their homes and visiting the graves of close kin. Many traditions and food focuses on death and features skeletons and other symbols. In Puebla, Mexico, it is good luck to be the one who bites into the plastic toy skeleton hidden by the baker in each loaf of bread. Family members give one another gifts like sugar skeletons or other items with a death motif. The gift is also more prized if the skull or skeleton is included with one's name. The open house will be available to the public through Friday. Trick-or-Treat By Michelle Wardlow courier staff Young and restless souls haunted the campus of Western Illinois University as students and children took part in Safe Trick-or- Treat Monday night. Every year students in the various residence halls don costumes and makeup and put on a safe Halloween event for local children. Safe Trick-or-Treat was designed to give parents and children in the Macomb area a safer alternative to the standard trick-or-treating from house to house. All residence halls took part in the evening's events, and different residence halls had separate activities planned. However, since Lincoln, Washington and Grote halls are ""wet"" residence halls, on the night of Safe Trick-or-Treat, children were not allowed in these particular halls. The students decided to have a craft table instead, as well as candy and a haunted house. Neal Meeker, senior art education major, was in charge of the haunted house. This was his second year helping get things built and set up. ""I had helped last year, and the haunted house was only half as good,"" Meeker said. ""We have done quite a bit more work."" Last year we only had tarps for walls, so this year we have introduced a secret doorway leading see Treat page 4 WC Inside NEWS �Mentalist Psychic Duo� appears Saturday as a part of Family Weekend. Page 5 OPINIONS The WC reveals its pick for the 17th Congressional District Page 8 SPORTS soccer heads to Michigan to compete in the Mid-Con Championships. Back page TODAY�S WEATHER SUNNY 51/25

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[IMAGE (PHOTOGRAPH, GRAPHIC) Photo of female student and young girl dressed up; Cutout of male soccer player; Cutout of man�s head; Photo of Dia de los Muertos decorations; Graphic of proposed location of multi-cultural center] COURTESY GRAPHIC The proposed location for the new multi-cultural center will be located between Sallee and Mowbray halls on Murray Street. MARTYN DAVIS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Maria Kuthy, education of interdisciplinary studies professor, and her EIS 417G students helped celebrate Dia de los Muertos by hosting an open house at Casa Latina. KATIE O�ROURKE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Students helped children enjoy a safe trick-or-treating Monday night in the residence halls. Serving Western Illinois University Since 1905 Volume 107, Issue 31 www.westerncourier.com WESTERN COURIER Wednesday, November 1, 2006 New multicultural complex to hit campus By Joe Lanane editor in chief School administrators recently announced that a ground-breaking new facility is expected to hit Western Illinois University, and several cultural centers throughout campus are reaping the benefits. The Multicultural Center, as it is currently being called, will house the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center, Casa Latina and the Women's Center all under the same roof. After much anticipation, the Multicultural Center is tentatively scheduled to open in two years. ""We're really excited about it,"" said Janine Cavicchia, director of the Women's Center. ""We've been involved the last couple years with the planning committees and meeting with the architects to make this the biggest location we've had so far on campus."" The building is one of the first of its kind in the Midwest to accommodate multiple cultural organizations, which is what makes the building so distinctive compared to other facilities on campus. ""We're talking about doing something very unique,"" said Earl Bracey, associate vice president for Student Services. He said the idea is a combination of several cultural buildings already in place at local universities. The approximately $5.5 million project would be located where the Casa Latina building currently stands, creating a centralized location for all three groups. The money is being generated by Facility Enhancement Fee developed from student funds. The fee was created more than one year ago to facilitate such projects as new sprinkler systems, athletic stadium enhancements and the Multicultural Center. Bracey said Casa Latina would close its doors at the end of the spring semester. As a result, Casa Latina would be located in a temporary site during the year of construction. Once completed, it would return to the newly-constructed center. Also at that point, the Gwendolyn Brooks center would vacate the University Auxiliary Building while the Women's Center would make the move next door from the third floor of Seal Hall. Name controversy ensues By Joe Lanane editor in chief Discussion has already arisen regarding the probable name of the the new complex. Associate Vice President for Student Services Earl Bracey said the building would simply be titled the Multicultural Center to appeal to all organizations the structure represents. ""Every student on this campus is paying for this building and it's very important they all feel welcomed there,"" he said. A recent petition from the Black Student Association is pushing to include the name Gwendolyn Brooks as the staple of the Multicultural Center. But while at Monday's BSA meeting, Bracey told members the currently proposed name is the most unbiased approach to ensuring no single organization is favored over another. ""You guys have the right to go down that road and sign a petition, and if that's what you think you Should do then do it,"" Bracey said see Controversy page 7 Students party with the dead By K.C. Vetter assistant news editor Halloween has become a major holiday in the American culture where kids eat their weight in free candy and college students have as another excuse to party. Other cultures, however, follow different traditions. Casa Latina hosted an open house Tuesday night to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or ""Day of the Dead,"" as a class project. The students of EIS 417G � foundations of language and minority education � put together an exhibit to help celebrate ""Day of the Dead."" An altar was set up paying tribute to Pablo Nerada, a Nobel Prize winner known for his poetry. ""(The students) decided they wanted to pay tribute to Neruda,"" said Maria Kuthy, EIS professor. ""They put it all together."" ""Day of the Dead"" is the Mexican equivalent of Halloween, beginning midnight the night of Oct. 31 and celebrated through Nov. 2. Both celebrations have ancient pagan roots that were adopted by the Christian culture. However, the ""Day of the Dead"" is a time when Mexican families remember their dead and celebrate the continuity of life. ""These displays represent those who died,"" said Claudia Babalay, senior bilingual education major. ""If they liked margaritas, we'll put margaritas."" The Mexican celebration, which can be traced to many Mesoamerican native traditions, originally fell at the end of July and the beginning of August. But the post-conquest era was moved by Spanish priests so it coincided with the Christian holiday of All Hallows Eve, an effort to transform the observance from a profane to a Christian celebration. The modern festivity is characterized by the traditional Mexican blend of ancient and adopted Christian features. A couple of students made presentations of different ""Day of the Dead"" celebrations from around the world, from Mexico to Africa to Asia. ""It was a very good experience,"" Dechet Miller, bilingual education and Spanish major and member of the EIS 417G class, said. ""It was one of the best (experiences) I've had in college."" ""They've been organizing (this event) every Sunday for the past month,"" Kuthy said. ""This was the fifth time we've done this,"" Kuthy added. ""I am very proud of them for all their hard work."" Different cultures practice different traditions but generally .the holiday's festivities consist of families welcoming their dead relatives back into their homes and visiting the graves of close kin. Many traditions and food focuses on death and features skeletons and other symbols. In Puebla, Mexico, it is good luck to be the one who bites into the plastic toy skeleton hidden by the baker in each loaf of bread. Family members give one another gifts like sugar skeletons or other items with a death motif. The gift is also more prized if the skull or skeleton is included with one's name. The open house will be available to the public through Friday. Trick-or-Treat By Michelle Wardlow courier staff Young and restless souls haunted the campus of Western Illinois University as students and children took part in Safe Trick-or- Treat Monday night. Every year students in the various residence halls don costumes and makeup and put on a safe Halloween event for local children. Safe Trick-or-Treat was designed to give parents and children in the Macomb area a safer alternative to the standard trick-or-treating from house to house. All residence halls took part in the evening's events, and different residence halls had separate activities planned. However, since Lincoln, Washington and Grote halls are ""wet"" residence halls, on the night of Safe Trick-or-Treat, children were not allowed in these particular halls. The students decided to have a craft table instead, as well as candy and a haunted house. Neal Meeker, senior art education major, was in charge of the haunted house. This was his second year helping get things built and set up. ""I had helped last year, and the haunted house was only half as good,"" Meeker said. ""We have done quite a bit more work."" Last year we only had tarps for walls, so this year we have introduced a secret doorway leading see Treat page 4 WC Inside NEWS �Mentalist Psychic Duo� appears Saturday as a part of Family Weekend. Page 5 OPINIONS The WC reveals its pick for the 17th Congressional District Page 8 SPORTS soccer heads to Michigan to compete in the Mid-Con Championships. Back page TODAY�S WEATHER SUNNY 51/25